Recent content by jro11

This thread expresses a pet peeve and asks a question that I would like to hear more about, especially from members of the forum who are designers or have any programming experience. MS’ Screenshot (Window/Shift/S) and other programs (notably, for me, SnagIt) are designed to enable users to...

No, without the Record button functionality being available I can't create a track. However, and this is interesting, I happen to have a track available I did last night, my friend the Black Phoebe, that I dragged onto the audacity screen and provided a track for me to work with (I'm not saying...

The Preferences sub-menu is grayed out (inactive).

(Audacity was working fine yesterday…) Restarted the computer, brought up Audacity, pressed Record button…no cursor movement. (It’s supposed to (activate the screen and) start moving to the right) Maybe this post can serve as a boiler plate for how to deal with problems like this, or just...

Wait! Select All, Effect/Volume and Compression/Normalize... and sound! I may be able to change all my phone sounds (to somethings only birdwatchers can hear and understand) after all! But why can't I instruct the program to default to Normalize rather than have to reset it every time I record...

? Which of these is "Speakers (loopback)"? The way I have it set is the only one through which I get sound at all. Followed manual and reset everything to defaults [Tools/Reset Configuration] then (per manual again) went to AppData/Roaming/and deleted all .cfg files. per manual, I reset...

Oh, very different from what I imagined. Does a 'Fork' usually provide a description of its change of course (e.g., This Audacity fork seeks to...)? Where might it put this description?

Thanks. If you did use Audacity, and are still into sound, may I ask what similar program you are using now? Can't find this. Closest I can get is .

Thank you. I'd never heard the term 'fork' (as related to software). Does a fork happen only when software is no longer being supported (i.e., implying that the software has been abandoned) or can multiple 'forks' occur during the development of their 'plate' software app(s)? Thanks again. I'll...

Audacity has been my 'sound' go-to application for years. It was straightforward, powerful, etc. Then I had to deal with other computer problems... Now I've reinstalled Audacity. I generate a sound on the computer (bird song), press the record button, and nothing. The cursor, which should be...

v e r y i n t e r e s t i n g... I have not tried the Python approach. Although I have always been interested in learning Python, I haven't had the time to pursue this interest. Thank you. I'll have to try it. (However I have reservations, as I noted.) Even more reservations considering...

I wasn't saving files without a descriptive title. COPILOT WAS SAVING EACH 'CONSERVATION' AUTOMATICALLY WITHOUT ME KNOWING IT (and, by the way was saving it to the cloud...another matter) and was naming these conversations with unique but totally undescriptive titles. I can't believe no one...

Seriously, Batch file rename (based on file content, possibly AI related)

And the name of that program is???

AI generated over 90% of each file; when I asked ChatGPT, it looked at the document from which I addressed it (you can open CoPilot within Word) and provided me with a number of possible alternative names; If I bring up CoPilot I see a list of names it's already given to our 'conversations'--so...